The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group appeared on Sunday (May 7) to ditch plans to withdraw his forces from Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine after receiving promises overnight that the
in eastern Ukraine after receiving promises overnight that they would get all the arms needed to capture the devastated city.
Yevgeny Prigozhin announced on Friday that his fighters, who have spearheaded the months-long assault on Bakhmut, would pull out because he said his men had been starved of ammunition and had suffered"useless and unjustified" losses as a result. Prigozhin, who has publicly heaped scorn on Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and the top army brass over their conduct of the war in Ukraine, said officials in Moscow consumed by"petty jealousy" were holding back crucial supplies to his men.
However in an audio message posted on his Telegram channel on Sunday, Prigozhin said:"Overnight we received a combat order, for the first time in all this time." "We have been promised as much ammunition and weapons as we need to continue further operations. We have been promised that everything needed to prevent the enemy from cutting us off will be deployed on the flank," he added.
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